Is Black Blade Blues the best LGBTQ book of the year?

My most excellent friend, Keffy Kehrli dropped me an email last night, asking me if I’d seen this link to Brit Mandelo’s column on the Queering of SFF.

How awesome to find out that Brit thinks Black Blade Blues is the best LGBTQ book she read in 2010.

I’m very flattered by this. It’s an awesome thing when something you create impacts someone else in a positive way. I love to tell stories, and this type of feedback just reinforces the instinct to write more.

I’m also pleased that she believes Black Blade Blues to provide a positive image and a strong voice for a community I support.

Thanks, Brit and thanks to all the readers out there that have contacted me and told me how much they like the book.

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I’m a teller of tall tales. Whether I’m sharing stories of dirigible crews on alien planets, mutant bunnies on a derelict generation ship, or a young urban blacksmith struggling to understand a hidden world of magic and dragons; I strive to create characters that are so real and emotionally impactful that you want to invite them home for dinner (or maybe get a restraining order to keep them away).

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Magic has a cost. Sarah Beauhall, blacksmith and dragon slayer doesn’t know just how high. Her lover, Katie Cornett, has finally been overwhelmed by this spiraling cost and her spirit is blasted from her body and flung into a world of nightmares and monsters.
As Katie’s coma deepens and her chances of survival fade, Sarah’s spirit must make a journey of its own through a world of crystalline eaters and malevolent spirits who exist only to hunt and to consume.
Night after night Sarah delves beyond the hidden paths, going from crystalline landscapes into the wild lands and lost worlds far beyond the great sea of dreams.
When the spirit of a long dead murderer—known only as the Bowler Hat man—begins gathering an army in the forgotten lands, Sarah discovers that more than eaters and feeders pursue her.